Vocab 3
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fishywentpsycho Plus on September 29, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Accost | (v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| Belabor | (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| Brackish | (adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| Cavort | (v.) to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
| Coherent | (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
| Distraught | (adj.) very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict |
| Encomium | (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
| Evince | (v.) to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke |
| Gambit | (n.) in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move or this type |
| Incendiary | (adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist, one who causes fires |
| Insatiable | (adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
| Largesse | (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
| Murky | (adj.) dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking clarity and precision |
| Overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| Primordial | (adj.) developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest age; fundamental, basic |
| Sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| Taciturn | (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| Talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| Utopian | (adj.) founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal |
| Viscous | (adj.) having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity |
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